About me

  • Brian Morris teaches and researches in media at RMIT University. He also makes music under various individual and collaborative project names (carsinthesky, whitebait).

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Book Chapters

:: (with W.Cartwright, A.Miles, L.Vaughan & J.Yuille), 'Developing Concepts for an Affective Atlas', in Geospatial Vision: New Dimensions in Cartography, eds. Antoni Moore & Igor Drecki (Berlin/Heidelberg: Springer-Verlag, 2008).

::  'Screening Los Angeles: : Architecture, Mobility and Migrancy', Drifting: Architecture and Migrancy, ed. Stephen Cairns, (London: Routledge, 2004), pp.252-270.

::  'Finding Sydney' in Creative Cities: Cinema and the Built Environment (CIRAC: Brisbane, 2004): pp.28-34

::  'Architectures of Entertainment' in Virtual Globalization: Virtual Spaces/Tourist Spaces, ed. David Holmes (London: Routledge, 2001), pp.205-219.

::  'Warzones of the Street' in Gritty Cities: Images of the Urban, eds. Lynette Finch and Chris McConville (Sydney: Pluto Press, 1999), 147-162.

Journal Articles (Refereed)

::   'What We Talk About When We Talk About "Walking in the City"' in Cultural Studies 18.5 (2004): 675-697. [online abstract; download full paper]

::  'Defacing the City: Extraordinary Everyday Encounters on the "Another View" Walking Trail', Meanjin 1 (2001): 121-129.

:: 'The Architecture of Entertainment: Learning from Melbourne's Crown Casino', The UTS Review, 5:1 (1999): 71-93. [download full paper]

:: 'The City as Geographical Madeleine: On Falling Down and Walking', Genre (California State University), 18 (1997): 105-123. [contents page]

:: 'In the Footsteps of the Flaneur: Modernism and Thomas Pynchon's V' , Antithesis 8.1 (1996): 125-139.

Conference Publications

::  (with E. Golani Solomon & C. Dimmer), '4 Hours: Orchestrations of TimeSpace' (2006), "our modern": Re-appropriating Asia's Urban Heritage: mAAN (modern Asian Architecture Network), The 6th International Conference Proceedings, 1-5 Nov, University of Tokyo.

::  'Un/wrapping Shibuya: The Changing Texture of Place' (2006), Asia Reconstructed: Proceedings of the 16th Biennial Conference of the ASAA, 26-29 June, University of Wollongong. [download paper

 ::  (with D. Verhoeven), 'Peforming Urban Rivalry: The Cultural Politics of First and Second Cities' (2004), Proceedings of The Passionate City Symposium, Melbourne: Informit, RMIT Publishing.

 ::  'Memory's Footfall: Images of the City in Falling Down' in the Proceedings of the Images of the Urban Conference, 17-19 July 1997 (1998).

Editor

::  Co-Editor (with D. Verhoeven) of the refereed Proceedings of The Passionate City Symposium, Melbourne: Informit, RMIT Publishing (2004).

Review

::  ‘If You Build It, They Will Come’. Review of John Hannigan’s Fantasy City: Pleasure and Profit in the Postmodern Metropolis in Postmodern Culture 9:3 (1999), http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/pmc/

Other Publications

:: Short entry on ‘Crown Entertainment Complex’ in Encyclopedia of Melbourne, Andrew Brown-May and Shurlee Swain (eds), Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press (2005).

::  ‘I Love the Way You Walk’. Antithesis (2001) – ‘Space’ Issue.

:: ‘Journeys in Extraordinary Everyday Culture: Walking in the City’ (2001). PhD Thesis, University of Melbourne, Australia. [download thesis]

::  ‘‘Where is your rupture?’ The Modern and Postmodern Subject in Thomas Pynchon’s Fiction’ (1994). MA Thesis (American Studies), University of Canterbury, New Zealand.